title: Aperiodic subwavelength Lüneburg lens with nonlinear Kerr effect compensation.
abstract: We introduce a Lüneburg lens design where Kerr nonlinearity is used to compensate for the focal point shift caused by diffraction of a Gaussian source. A computationally efficient iterative method introduced in [Opt. Lett. 35, 4148 (2010)] is used to provide ray diagrams in the nonlinear case and verify the focal shift compensation. We study the joint dependence of focal shift on waist size and intensity of Gaussian source, and show how to compensate spherical aberration caused by the nonlinearity by a small perturbation of the Lüneburg profile. Our results are specific to Lüneburg lens but our approach is applicable to more general cases of nonlinear nonperiodic metamaterials.
authors.affiliation: Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA. gaohh87@mit.edu
authors.forename: Hanhong
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Gao
authors.forename: Satoshi
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Takahashi
authors.forename: Lei
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Tian
authors.forename: George
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Barbastathis
mesh_terms: D016477:Artifacts; D003198:Computer Simulation; D017076:Computer-Aided Design; D004867:Equipment Design; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis; D007909:Lenses; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D017711:Nonlinear Dynamics; D012031:Refractometry / Q000295:instrumentation*